Supporting faculty and students in the creation and use of new media for presenting ideas in the classroom and to the world.

Teaching with Technology

At Dickinson, even the age-old embraces the cutting edge.

In some college classrooms, a lesson about a 2,000-year-old Latin account of the Gallic War might use nothing more than a leather-bound book and a blackboard scrawled with conjugations. Not at Dickinson. Here, that text comes to life through Google Earth animations, GIS visualizations, wiki vocabulary lists and digital scholia.

Whether helping students practice a foreign language by Skyping with native speakers on the other side of the world or working with students to build an augmented reality Civil War walking tour in a history class, Dickinson faculty regularly look for innovative ways to enhance their teaching with the latest state of the art tools. Our academic technology staff ensures that faculty are not only up on the latest in high-tech, but also understand when technology truly enhances learning and when it merely distracts.